Updating a SharePoint List Item With Flow When You Don’t Have The ID
I recently worked on a project that used Flow to update a SharePoint list each time an item was updated...
2017-07-17
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Data Savvy
Azure Data Factory and the Case of the Missing JRE That Wasn’t
On a recent project I used Azure Data Factory (ADF) to retrieve data from an on premises SQL Server 2014...
2017-05-11 (first published: 2017-05-01)
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I Like to Move It, Move It – But Azure Data Factory Doesn’t
I’ve spent the last couple of months working on a project that includes Azure Data Factory and Azure Data Warehouse. ADF...
2017-04-11
607 reads
Insufficient Disk Space (T-SQL Tuesday #88)
This month’s T-SQL Tuesday – hosted by Kennie T Pontoppidan(@KennieNP) – is called “The daily (database-related) WTF“. He asked us to be...
2017-03-27 (first published: 2017-03-14)
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Copying data from On Prem SQL to ADLS with ADF and Biml – Part 2
I showed in my previous post how we generated the datasets for our Azure Data Factory pipelines. In this post, I’ll...
2017-03-21 (first published: 2017-03-10)
1,726 reads
Copying data from On Prem SQL to ADLS with ADF and Biml – Part 1
Apologies for the overly acronym-laden title as I was trying to keep it concise but descriptive. And we all know...
2017-03-03
617 reads
Please Lend Me Your Vote for Documentation of TMSCHEMA DMVs
I spent a good bit of time looking for the definitions/descriptions of the TMSCHEMA DMVs that allow us to view...
2016-11-07
753 reads
Process Compatibility Level 1200 SSAS Tabular Model from SSIS 2014
A client wanted to upgrade their SSAS model to SSAS 2016 to take advantage of some of the features of...
2016-10-21 (first published: 2016-10-14)
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Documenting your Tabular or Power BI Model
If you were used to documenting your SSAS model using the MDSchema rowsets, you might have noticed that some of them...
2016-10-05
1,341 reads
BYO Time Zone Conversion With SSAS DMVs
This is just a quick note (since I apparently forgot and was puzzled for a moment) that the MDSCHEMA_CUBES DMV...
2016-09-21
484 reads
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UNISTR Escape
In SQL Server 2025, I run this command:
SELECT UNISTR('*3041*308A*304C\3068 and good night', '*') as "A Classic";
What is returned? (assume the database has an appropriate collation)
A: 
B: 
C: 
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